Assembly language

def. a low-level symbolic code converted by an assembler

ex.

> mov a1, 061h :
  load in register a1 the content of memory location of adress 061h

easier to write but codes are extremely long and hard to read and understand

high-level languages

easier to write and read algorithms

> 1972: Dennis Ritchie at Bell telephone
        Labs develops the C language

> 1979: Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs
        design and implement C++
        (C with classes)

More sparse stuff:

• compiler: g++

• command line debugger: gdb

  • not really practical to use

• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• ##:

  • single line: //
  • multiple lines: /* ... */

multiple file programs and header files

sparse stuff:

types

operations for variable modification

Sys.time()

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